Sadists believe that there is no happiness in the world, and due to this are always sad. They are not depressed however, merely sad the majority of the time, and assertions that emo kids are sadistic are therefore, for the most part, unfounded.

Sadism has been compared to pessimism by top scientists, who assertained that pessimists see the bad points in life over the good, while sadists are sad because they are sadistic. Therefore, sadism is not pessimism.

The Sadistic Church (originally an offshoot of the Catholic church) is a clandestine organisation, often labelled as a cult by Christ-blinded bigots. Though prospective members are slowly introduced into the religion, slowly gaining more information until they cannot leave for risk of getting murdered, it is not a cult. Moreover, the members of the Sadistic Church claim that the Catholic Church itself is a cult.

The Sadistic Church is currently in a turf war with the Catholic Church and Opus Dei.

The Sadistic Church has been slowly coaxing more and more members to its cause. Unfortunately, many people are using the Church as a stepping stone to further sadness.
This leads to depression and sometimes suicide.

Suicide is not condoned by the Sadistic Church, as it might create happiness in those that hated the person. If a member of the Church is contemplating suicide their life is evaluated, if the level of potential sadness is equal to or greater than the potential happiness, the suicide is allowed to go ahead.

In 1984, the United States of Arabia declared a complete and total war on Sadism. Seeing as Sadism belongs to no specific country, the terrorist commander leading the USA, launched a frantic search for a thyrium idol, shaped like a shoebox with a snarling rapa's head pushing its way out. When detonated by a Supernova device, the thyrium would destroy the world.

Luckily some random civilian scientist disarmed two supernova devices with mere seconds to go, one of them while inside a free-falling tank. The civilian scientist in question did not die when the tank hit the ground because he was wearing a jetpack that he didn't know he had.

The story was published by one Matthew Reilly, with some facts changed to make room for a conspiracy theory involving the American armed forces.